JI has some info about new tins. I broke down and got the original 7 basically just for the tins, I guess I will probably do the same and get these. My guess is there will be 6 all together not just the 3 new ones they are showing.

Actually in the east, KM's still a common name. Around Pittsburgh, and just around me in general, I have 2 within a 15 or 20 minute drive... 3 if you cound the Sears Grand at the mall too which has a toy department very similar to any K-Mart.

Of late, KM's have been getting wave 4 and 5 in actually, but they charge more usually so, like KB toys, they're off your radar till a sale.

I found ROTS figures there first though, as did most people who have KM's near them, long before any other retailer put them out. I think I even posted a story on it on our front page at the time. And the Cantina sets they had languished on the shelves forever till heavy markdowns. Same with their battlepacks like the Jedi Temple Assault.

They were also one of the only stores around me that got the Prequal tins in, in any quantity.

Like I said though, KM's big in the North/East part of the country still, not in the South or West though. Bear in mind though that out here Target's and WM's are usually more spread out as well, in most areas, and thus the competition is not quite what other areas have. I have to drive a minimum 20 minutes to get to any WM, and 40 or so to get to Target.

I can think of 5 Kmarts that are still in the STL area, all within a 30 mile radius. At least two of them went under a few years ago, so at one time there were 7-8 within relative driving distance from my house.

Kmart sometimes is where I find figures first; for a new line anyway. I got my first ROTS batch from them about two weeks before the official launch date, found TAC Wave 1 there several weeks before they were anywhere else, and scored my first new GI JOE figures there as well.

I don't spend too much time going out of my way to hit Kmart stores though. They're still overall one of the worst places for me to find anything as they seem to stock their Star Wars stuff only once every few months.